CodeProject | Daily News - Is Honeycomb Android's Vista?

Your morning update: Daily News - Is Honeycomb Android's Vista?

Friday, April 29, 2011 View online Comments? Questions? Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com

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CodeProject | Daily News - U.S. OKs Expiration of Microsoft Antitrust Deal

Your morning update: Daily News - U.S. OKs Expiration of Microsoft Antitrust Deal

Thursday, April 28, 2011 View online Comments? Questions? Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com

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CodeProject | Daily News - Playstation Network Breach: It’s Really, Really Bad

Your morning update: Daily News - Playstation Network Breach: It's Really, Really Bad

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 View online Comments? Questions? Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com

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CodeProject | Daily News - The Growing Role of Software In Our Cars

Your morning update: Daily News - The Growing Role of Software In Our Cars

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 View online Comments? Questions? Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com

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CodeProject | Newsletter (25 Apr 2011)

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Monday, April 25, 2011

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This week we are excited to present the next in our series of Virtual Tech Summits: Cloud Development. Registration is free as always so if you've ever wondered what design patters you should look at when developing for the cloud, or are interested in implementing NoSQL or using Azure AppFabric, then sign up now while space is still available.

With the Easter long weekend, travel, chocolate overdoses and general tidying up to be done, no big releases this week, just dozens and dozens of seriously good articles. The list of latest articles is always available, or just dive into the list of new additions below.

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Weekly Poll Results

How many hours a week do you work?

Survey period: 25 Apr 2011 to 2 May 2011

Count each hour that you're doing work (including from home), or that you are in the office or usual place of work. When you're done compare the results with our March 2003 survey.

Option	Votes	%
I don't work	11	4.87
less than 20 hrs a week.	4	1.77
20 - 40 hrs a week. No problem.	49	21.68
40 - 60 hrs a week. Busy.	129	57.08
60 - 80 hrs a week. Hectic.	19	8.41
80 - 100 hrs a week. I have no life.	11	4.87
more than 100 hrs. I have been assimilated.	3	1.33
Total	226	100%

Most popular new articles
18 Apr 2011 - 25 Apr 2011

• A Collection of Examples of 64-bit Errors in Real Programs - Karpov Andrey
  
• MVC Bricks for ASP.net - Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
  
• Debugging Data Bindings in XAML with Silverlight 5 Beta - Kunal_Chowdhury
  
• Working with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta - Kunal_Chowdhury
  
• EasyProgressBar for Windows Forms Application - burak299
  

Latest Additions

162 articles overall 109 new, 98 updated, 1 moved. 59 were edited, 103 unedited
Article topics listed: C++

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New articles added

C / C++ Language

• A Collection of Examples of 64-bit Errors in Real Programs - Karpov Andrey
  This article is the most complete collection of examples of 64-bit errors in the C and C++ languages. (Unedited)
  C++, C, Windows, Win32, Win64, Visual-Studio, Dev, bugs, Code, review
  
  

Internet / Network

• Email checking program with support for multiple POP accounts - Sergey Chepurin
  A program to check for email messages with multiple POP accounts.
  C++, Win32, MFC, Dev
  
  

Threads, Processes & IPC

• Spin Lock in C++ - sameer_87
  A Spin Lock implementation which can be used for general purpose locking (Unedited)
  C++, Windows, Win32, Threading, Development
  
  

Debug Tips

• Extending windbg with Page Fault Breakpoints - Mattias Högström
  Take advantage of the memory page access flag, and set a new kind of breakpoint
  C++, Windows, Dev
  
  

Product Showcase

• Application Virtualization for Developers - Artem A. Razin
  In March 2011, Virtualization Technologies released a new version of the developer library that makes it possible to use virtualization in applications.
  VB6, C++, C#, Dev, ActiveX
  
  

Articles updated

Tree Controls

• Win32 Editable TreeView and ListView Merged as One - Eitan Michaelson
  A custom tree control for Win32.
  C++, Windows, Win32, Dev, UI
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.2.b3 Beta Release - A simple but effective way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.
  VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, MFC, CEO, Architect, DBA, Dev, QA
  
  

Mobile Development

• Download a Google Map with Win32, C++ and WinInet - Paul Scholz
  Using pure Win32, WinInet, and STL Vectors, we open an Internet connection, download, and display a Google map on a Windows Mobile phone.
  C++, WinMobile (WinMobile6), Mobile, STL, GDI, Dev
  
  

Audio and Video

• nVLC - Roman Ginzburg
  A .NET API for the libVLC interface so the vast majority of VLC functionality could be utilized in managed applications.
  C++, C#, XML, Windows, .NET, VS2010, Dev
  
  

General Graphics

• Transforming images for fun: a local grid-based image warper - phoaivu
  A platform-independent engine for image warping. (Unedited)
  C++, C++/CLI, C#, Windows, .NET, Mobile, Win32, Dev, ImageProcessing
  
  

Win32/64 SDK & OS

• A simple wrapper for asynchronous file I/O (ReadFileEx,WriteFileEx) - Sudheesh.P.S
  AsyncFile is a small wrapper class for simplifying the usage of asynchronous file APIs. (Unedited)
  VC6, VC10.0, WinXP, Win7, Win32, Dev, Application, General
  
  
• Windows 7 Heap Performance Analysis - Daiqian Huang
  WIN32 Heap performance
  C++, C, Windows (Win7), Dev
  
  

Algorithms & Recipes

• Minimalist Floating Point Type - _beauw_
  A portable, lightweight floating point type
  C++, C, ASM, Windows, VS2010, Dev, IDE
  
  

Internet / Network

• Remote Control PCs - Andy Bantly
  Two projects that work together to remote control PCs across a LAN.
  VC6, Windows, MFC, Dev
  
  

Tips and Tricks added

Programming Tips

• Underappreciated articles - The number of articles here on CodeProject is as we all know - HUGE - and some gems are easily lost in this ocean of knowledge - Espen Harlinn
  Articles I feel, and hope, people will appreciate. (Unedited)
  C++, C#
  
  
• A very basic alpha blend algorithm - Mukit, Ataul
  A simple implementation of alpha blending technique displaying the basic mechanism behind it (Unedited)
  C++
  
  

Programming Tips

• A very basic alpha blend algorithm - Mukit, Ataul
  SledgeHammer didn't help, so I had to do it myself... here it is again - a super fast improved algorithm compared to the previous one and with no setpixel and getpixel :)void AlphaBlend(CDC* pDC, int xDest, int yDest, int nDestWidth, int nDestHeight, CDC* pSrcDC, int xSrc, int ySrc, BYTE... (Unedited)
  C++
  
  

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